"Before you allow people access to your forum, especially in an administrative position, you must be aware that that person can seriously damage your forum. Therefore, you should only allow people that you trust, implicitly, to have such access." -Douglas

"Before you allow people access to your forum, especially in an administrative position, you must be aware that that person can seriously damage your forum. Therefore, you should only allow people that you trust, implicitly, to have such access." -Douglas

To explain on Illori's post a bit, those "errors" have nothing to do with the actual forum. They are "function depreciated" errors, which means that some of the functions that SMF uses (one in particular) will be removed in future versions of PHP, that's all.

And support by the team may be dropped only if you remove the SMF copyright in the footer or if you modify it. While dropping the whole copyright isn't illegal, the team has the right to deny support. On the other hand, modifying the copyright is actually illegal by the license SMF is currently published under.

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"This is really a generic concept about human thinking - when faced with large tasks we're naturally inclined to try to break them down into a bunch of smaller tasks that together make up the whole."

It is not our intention to remove any copyrights. We ran on Yabb for more then 10 years without any need to remove their so I don't see why we would do it with SMF.

My question about the support was more like are we going to live : "Huh! We cannot help you at all because this version is not supported. Bye."

The php version 7.2.16 is not supported right now but I guess it will at some point.Should we go ahead and try to install SMF 2.0.15 with the YaBB converter?

Our plan for now is trying to upgrade our forum on a test plateform like XAMPP.I already have XAMPP 7.1.28 which is php 7.1.28.I will run our YaBB forum on it. Then I will install SMF 2.0.15 and try the YaBB converter.If it work then we will do it on the live server.

The php version 7.2.16 is not supported right now but I guess it will at some point.Should we go ahead and try to install SMF 2.0.15 with the YaBB converter?

See, that's another problem... don't know about this particular converter, but most converters were designed way back and don't know how updated they were, so the converter might not work with PHP 7.2 and you might have to roll back to 5.6 in order to do the conversion . In general, it's preferred to do these types of things on older versions of PHP, since, as I said, most of them are pretty old.

There are cases which also require you to do the conversion to a lower version of SMF (say, 2.0.0) and then do a large upgrade, either to 2.0.10 and then to 2.0.15 or directly to 2.0.15. Conversion processes are tricky and rarely go without a glitch. Shuffling between PHP versions is a must in these cases.

If you absolutely have no choice and can't change hosting providers, I'd suggest using a free hosting provider, one that allows shuffling between PHP versions, just for the conversion. This of course depends on how willing you'd be to put that data on a free hosting provider, but, in most cases, you can delete the data after you're done with the conversion .

Our plan for now is trying to upgrade our forum on a test plateform like XAMPP.I already have XAMPP 7.1.28 which is php 7.1.28.I will run our YaBB forum on it. Then I will install SMF 2.0.15 and try the YaBB converter.If it work then we will do it on the live server.

Just read this .

This is actually a good plan, convert the forum locally, then make it live . Of course, you'll still probably need to shuffle between PHP versions through the conversion process.

But, if you go live (production) with 2.0.15 installed, you'll probably have to empty the error log daily. This problem will probably be fixed in 2.0.16, but until then, you'll just have to live with this problem .

On the other hand, 2.1 supports PHP 7.2 or higher out of the box. The problem is, it's still in RC, therefore, still not considered stable enough for production. So... I guess the question comes down to, are you willing to empty out error logs daily, or are you willing to try out 2.1 RC and preferably transfer to 2.1 Final when it gets releases.

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"This is really a generic concept about human thinking - when faced with large tasks we're naturally inclined to try to break them down into a bunch of smaller tasks that together make up the whole."

So now I have my forum running somehow on SMF but with a lot of things that doesn't seem to be right.

All the boards are only visible when I logon. If I'm not logged then only 2 boards are visible… It was not behave like that on YaBB.

Seem that not all attachments was properly imported…

I ran into a lot of problem while converting.I always got this error for the attachment:SELECT command denied to user "@'localhost' for table 'smf_settings' with a warning from MySQL that a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time….

SELECT command denied to user "@'localhost' for table 'smf_settings' with a warning from MySQL that a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time….

This is probably related to the server or the script... and is probably the reason why some boards are viewable for members only (not all settings got converted).

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"This is really a generic concept about human thinking - when faced with large tasks we're naturally inclined to try to break them down into a bunch of smaller tasks that together make up the whole."

Okay. Let's start from scratch!I tried to take a shortcut by reading the most recent post about converting Yabb to SMF and tried to use this one. It's my mistake.

So I read all minimum requirements for different version of SMF and I made a table versus all the converters I found.Here is my results: From Yabb version To SMF version PHP and MySql XAMMP for In convert.php WindowsOfficial:Yabbse Yabb SE 1.5.x 2.0 4.1.0 - 4.0.18

Yabb Yabb 1 Gold 2.0 4.1.0 - 4.0.18

Yabb2 Yabb 2 2.0 4.1.0 - 4.0.18 5.5.19

Yabb21 Yabb 2.1 1.1 4.1.0 - 4.0.18

Yabb22 Yabb 2.2 1.1 4.1.0 - 4.0.18

From post:Yabb24 Yabb 2.2 1.1 4.1.0 – 3.23.28

Yabb24 Yabb 2.4 1.1 4.1.0 – 3.23.28

Based on that statement from the minimum requirements: o Versions of SMF below 2.0.7 will not work on PHP 5.5. If you use PHP 5.5 it is required to use SMF 2.0.7 or greater.o Versions of SMF 2.0.14 and higher will not work on PHP 5.3 or below. If you use PHP 5.3 it is required to upgrade to a newer version of PHP.

and because I only found only one XAMPP suitable version I will try the Yabb2 converter from the official download page.

SELECT command denied to user "@'localhost' for table 'smf_settings' with a warning from MySQL that a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time….

The MySQL default user name is root without password with XAMPP. Do I need to change it?What else it should be?

I'm able to do the conversion, I mean all boards,topics,members look like there but it's always the attachments that suck!

On my last try, the attachments was all there but 4 times, I mean if I have one attachment in a post then it was displayed 4 times!?

For your information...I'm just a regular user. I'm not an IT guy. I have no programmation knowledge. But I can read and follow instructions and also figure out how thing should work by myself. But now, I need a little help please. Thank.